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The Glastonbury High School's boys' basketball team had its great season come to an end in the first round of the Class LL tournament, after posting a regular season record of 12-8 and earning a #18 seed in the tourney.

The East Hartford High School boys' basketball team took its impressive regular season record of 13-7 into the Class LL tournament, and won a great first-round game, but took a heartbreaking loss in the second round to a tough opponent.

The Glastonbury High School boys' hockey team finished its regular season with a 15-4-1 record, after a 7-1 rout of rival South Windsor on March 2, and is now focused on the conference and state tournaments.

The East Catholic/Glastonbury/South Windsor girls' hockey team forced Simsbury into overtime in the SCC finals, but an unlucky bounce kept the Eagles/Tomahawks/Bobcats, known as ETB, from claiming the title.

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Griswold Middle School students got a taste of the fun, the fame and the funding issues of the theater in this year's middle school musical production, "The Best Little Theater in Town." The play was performed for fellow students during the school day and in a March 24 evening performance for...

If leaders from the 17 towns that make up NECCOG were hoping for good news at their meeting on March 27, there wasn't a lot to share. A contract for paramedic intercept services will most likely mean increased costs to all towns except Killingly. A regional Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan...

There's really not anything glaringly wrong with "Home," exactly, but this brand of generically enjoyable yet instantly forgettable children's entertainment is what consistently puts its studio, DreamWorks, on a slightly lower tier than Disney. While the misfit alien Oh (voiced by Jim...

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Volunteers filled the great room at the Connecticut Audubon Society Grassland Bird Conservation Center in Pomfret on March 27. Huddled around Petri dishes, they tried their hand at identifying stream invertebrates, small insects that are amazingly accurate indicators of water quality. It was...

There are many reasons why gardeners and landscapers might want to eliminate invasive plant species. Invasiveshave been charged with causing extinctions, crowding out biodiversity, altering ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, and even changing the evolutionary trajectories of native...

Author/illustrator/teacher Jason Deeble held court at the Villages in Killingly on March 26. Thirteen children and six adults were on hand to hear the 35-year-old share his passion for reading and drawing. Funded by the New Alliance Foundation and Connecticut Humanities Council, the visit was...